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Dr. Jennifer Miller and Dr. Yiming Wang discuss how their research into ostrich eggshell beads reveals symbolic behavior and social networks in the distant past

Pollen, infectious disease and the Black Death with Adam Izdebski

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Adam Izdebski joins the Infectious Historians to discuss his work at the frontier between pollen and disease, and in particular in light of his recent work analyzing pollen from the time of the Black Death

Barbara Huber studies old plant remains by using biochemical and biomolecular approches

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Barbara Huber is a Joachim Herz Foundation Add-On Fellow for Interdisciplinary Life Science. In her PhD research at the Max Planck Institute she studies old plant remains by using biochemical and biomolecular approches to find out how people used plants in the past

A Journey to the West: The Ancient Dispersal of Rice out of East Asia

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Rice is one of the most culturally valued and widely grown crops in the world today, and extensive research over the past decade has clarified much of the narrative of its domestication and early spread across East and South Asia. By better understanding the adoption of this water-demanding crop in the arid regions of West Asia, we explore an important chapter in human adaptation and agricultural decision making.

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Hudson, M.; Muñoz Fernández, I. M.: Henceforth fishermen and hunters are to be restrained: towards a political ecology of animal usage in premodern Japan. (2023)

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Wilkin, S.; Hommel, P.; Ventresca Miller, A.; Boivin, N. L.; Pedergnana, A.; Shishlina, N.; Trifonov, V.: Curated cauldrons: preserved proteins from early copper-alloy vessels illuminate feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe. iScience, 107482 (2023)

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Nascimento, M. d. N.; McMichael, C. N.H.; Kleijwegt, Z.; Åkesson, C.; Gredal, C.; Maezumi, S. Y.; Bush, M. B.; Gosling, W. D.: Fire in the clouds: how changing land use shaped an Andean biodiversity hotspot. Quaternary Science Reviews 317, 108278, pp. 1 - 7 (2023)

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Davis, D. S.; Rasolondrainy, T.; Manahira, G.; Hixon, S.; Andriankaja, V.; Hubertine, L.; Justome, R.; Lahiniriko, F.; Léonce, H.; Roi, R. et al.; Victorian, F.; Clovis, M. B. J.; Voahirana, V.; Carina, T. L.; Yve, A. J.; Chrisostome, Z. M.; Manjakahery, B.; Douglass, K.: Social networks as risk-mitigation strategies in south-west Madagascar. Antiquity, 2023.123 (2023)

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Gruwier, B.; Amano, N.: The Holocene record of the slow loris (Nycticebus sp.) in Java (Indonesia). American journal of biological anthropology, 24840 (2023)

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Shipton, C.; Boivin, N. L.; Petraglia, M.: Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. In: Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology, 42, pp. 665 - 672 (Eds. Beyin, A.; Wright, D. K.; Wilkins, J.; Olszewski, D. I.). Springer, Cham (2023)

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Zamani, M.; El-Hajj, H.; Vogl, M.; Kantz, H.; Valleriani, M.: A mathematical model for the process of accumulation of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10 (533), s41599-023-01947-w (2023)

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Niang, K.; Blinkhorn, J.: Tiémassas, Senegal. In: Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology, 60, pp. 941 - 950 (Eds. Beyin, A.; Wright, D. K.; Wilkins, J.; Olszewski, D. I.). Springer, Cham (2023)

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